Fashion

About this course

Entry requirements

A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) or equivalent qualification in your chosen subject or a related discipline, and/or; relevant work experience, demonstrating your ability to study at postgraduate level. A portfolio of work is also required. If your first language is not English a certificate is required as evidence that you have an average IELTS score of 6.0 or equivalent.
Consideration will be given to applicants who present a degree with a lower classification, but can make a strong case for admission in relation to a particular project.

Months of entry

September

Course content

MA Fashion is designed for those with a desire to challenge and expand the established discipline of fashion and meets the changing demands of contemporary design culture and the fashion industry.

Throughout the course you combine technical expertise with conceptual thinking, learning through a variety of media and considering both the creative core and the progressive peripheries of fashion.

Key study topics include:

Develop and refine your project proposal through a series of practical and written assignments.

Research and develop your major project.

Seminar series and study trips support the contextualisation of research and introduces you to new materials, methods and ideas.

Realise and publish your major project, which can take the form of a designed fashion collection, branding publication, marketing report or academic dissertation.

You are challenged to identify your target audience and to situate your final project in the real world of creative development and competition.